Their lives encompassed an era when both art and science witnessed
dizzying feats of innovation, their own included. Early in the century they shared a visionary belief in globalism, though for Noguchi it was rooted in a bitter sense of homelessness — "belonging everywhere and nowhere," as he wrote in his autobiography — while Fuller declared himself a citizen of "planet earth." They shared a conviction that technology could save the world. "The acceleration of doing more with less," Fuller predicted in 1969, would provide enough for the needs of
"all humanity within another 34 years." – NYT